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07 Apr 2017, 4:46 am

A moment that changed me: I was diagnosed with autism at 45

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The diagnosis came as a vindication. All my life I had tried so hard to be neurotypical, but in that one moment it became utterly clear that it was never going to happen. I was never going to fit that mould. I had stepped out of the psychiatrist’s consulting room into a new reality. The colours around me seemed brighter, the noises sharper. Finally I had the answer I had been searching for all my life.


Pretty simiar to how I reacted including colors seeming brighter.


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